Anywhere to ski last week in April?

No Tony, of course Niederau is not open at the end of April.

My point was that you dismissed my original suggestion that Obergurgl might be sticky, which turned out to be the way it was. I was fully aware of the resort height, but you cannot prevent nature doing it's work.

We did try to get accomodation in Obergurgl for late March, but a high % of the hotels were fully booked, and direct booking offers were over 1000 Euros per person.

In fact, the Inghams reps told us that there were rocks showing through at Obergurgl, and that Niederau was in better condition. We discussed this, because I didn't believe that to be the case. What was resolved was that in high resorts, in the majority of cases, the substrate is rock, while in Tyrol, the substrate is meadow. The piste machines deal better with a meadow base, rather than a rock base. Interesting thought.